Steve J. Martin, the monitor named to oversee reforms at Rikers Island, is no stranger to the jail complex, the litigants or to New York City.

Martin, a prison reform expert based in Oklahoma, has worked on cases involving New York City jails dating back to 1992. In the 2000s, he helped enact a settlement of another excessive force case against the New York City Department of Correction in Sheppard v. Phoenix.

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